Organizational Engagement with Supply Chain Integration: Achieving a Tangible Strategy

The literature on supply chain management has long extolled the virtues to be gained by organizations seeking to integrate their supply chain. These gains include greater data and information visibility, leaner and more efficient processes, vendor managed inventories, and higher profitability. Globalization and global supply chain operation, and supply chain visibility have become buzzwords for organizations in recent years. Customers demand more data concerning shipping, especially as businesses attempt to move toward just-in-time inventory management or to incorporate lean philosophies into their firms’ practices.